Anybody have one of thsee places they drive by all the time

Thier was five brothers at one time none never married all lived together in thier parents house! One is all that is left! Well they own about thousand acres don't do anything with it anymore won't let anybody touch it! Everything they ever bought sits around d thier house! But the tractors sitting I. Thier yard what drives me nuts just to name a few all IH 1456 fwd with cab! 1566 red cab fwd! 1468 or 1568! 986 farmall H another 986 about 3 back hoes! they drove school buses they all sit thier all those tractors I never seen move! When they quit busing they went bout a new case skid steer a new case back hoe a new case ih 5250 and a new Ford truck! paid cash cause I deal with the dealer they bought from! My best friend stop one day wanted to buy his grandpas farmall H they told him nope still sitting under the tree in yard! O well some day it will be sold I just gotta be ready!

A buddy of mine had an uncle who was once both a Case dealer and an appliance dealer.

My buddy took me to his farm once when he wasn't home. There was a DC Case tractor with a 4" tree grown up through the rear wheel, probably new when parked, other similar stuff, combines and other machinery. A building containing refrigerators, ranges, etc. in what was left of the original packing with the roof fallen in on the building, etc.

The fellow had a house in town in a decent neighborhood. The place was such a mess that the city went in and cleaned it up. The city employees were cleaning up the lawn with a bucket loader while the truck drivers sat with the windows rolled up 'cause there was snakes dropping out of the stuff the loader was picking up.

My wife sold him a camper shell for his pickup once, but that's a story worthy of its own thread.

Yes, but there's getting to be less and less of them. In the past 10 years, half a dozen of those places around here have been cleaned up, either by auction or by a scrapper coming in. The old "dollar men" are dying off and their "treasures" are getting carted off for a lot less than they would have gotten if they hadn't let 'em rot for 25 years. But, it IS their stuff and their property. As long as the stuff isn't causing a public nuisance, it'll stay 'til they die.

Went to an auction last fall of a place like that, old fellow died, every thing his parents and he ever owned was still there, except it was all shedded, most not used for 30 years and stuff was like brand new. brought huge money, I came home empty handed.

One of the places I lease, and have now for some 35 years or more, was owned by my cousin. His dad died, and his brothers and sisters made him split the place up, and he ended up with about 60 acres left. He quit farming as he had with his father, and started hauling cows for local farmers for a living. He had a full line of machinery, and accumulated about a dozen trucks while he hauled cows, but the machinery sat for over thirty years in the weeds and brush. One newer piece was a new AC no-till planter. When we pulled the stuff out for scrap for his daughter a few years back, we had to cut a 1' tree down in the middle of it. Most everything went to the scrap yard, but the usable stuff was sold at auction, including 6 tractors that we were able to get started with a few days of work on them. There was even a brand new looking New Idea elevator (from the side) that wound up being scrapped from sitting in the woods for years with leaves and debris in the trough. The good machinery included a pretty full line of fast hitch equipment, and a baler that I was given for watching over the operation of cleaning things up. But I have to admit, it was sad to see the stuff sitting there, and having Jim refuse to sell any of it even to me.

Sounds just like my Dad.....

Has a lot of stuff that he will not sell that has been sitting for years.

Nothing local... but if there was, I'd have to stop and plead to take pictures.